Romania has already responded „directly to foreign interference by sending home those who were in contact with a paramilitary group of Nazi origin associated with a candidate, who was trying to overthrow the constitutional democratic order in Romania”, states the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE), in a statement sent to the press on Tuesday.

According to the Romanian ministry, the statement of Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Russian president, „is unacceptable but in line with the systematic effort of the Russian Federation to manipulate and interfere with democratic processes in Romania. The Kremlin finds that it is failing, hence the frustration”.

„Russia has not had free elections for almost 20 years. An aggressor state cannot give lessons in democracy. In contrast, in Russia the opposition has no access to institutions and legal lawsuits. Opponents are executed a few meters from the Kremlin,” the Romanian Foreign Ministry added in a statement sent to the press.

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that the presidential election in Romania without the candidacy of Calin Georgescu, an ultranationalist and pro-Russian, according to EFE, „will have no legitimacy.”

„Of course, to be honest, any election organized without him (Georgescu) will have no legitimacy,” the Russian president’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

AGERPRES